alibaba/qwen2-5-vl-72b-instructOpen WeightsQwen vision-language model for visual reasoning, documents, and agent tasks
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
MODEL CONTEXT PROTOCOL (MCP) READINESS
✓ Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct natively supports OpenAI / Anthropic format tool calling and is fully compatible with MCP servers and agent loops.
MCP Context Window Recommendations
With a context capacity of 131,072 tokens, this model can handle moderately large MCP tool definitions and multi-turn conversation logs comfortably.
API CALL INVOCATION EXAMPLE
// Example: Calling Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct via OpenAI SDK
import OpenAI from "openai";
const client = new OpenAI({
apiKey: process.env.ALIBABA_API_KEY,
});
const response = await client.chat.completions.create({
model: "alibaba/qwen2-5-vl-72b-instruct",
messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Hello! Can you inspect MCP tools?" }],
});
console.log(response.choices[0].message.content);PRICING BY PROVIDER
Rates in USD per 1M tokens. Rates synchronized from models.dev public catalog.
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